We believe the music video as an art form is in danger of extinction. There's only so much you can do to dress up a four-minute pop song without it looking like every other quickly-edited band promo. A good video is distinctive, like a fine wine, or at least a middle-shelf vodka, and no matter how many lameass videos overshadow them, there are still good videos released every month. We sort through the flotsam and jetsam and find them and -- we'll warn you up-front -- our reviews are rude, vulgar, and politically incorrect. They are our opinions laid bare. As yet, there is no standard for music video criticism. No one else does it, after all. But we want to set the standard, through our own jaded humor and observations, this week and every other. And we want you to take the ride with us.Sometime ago, Andrew seemed to drop off the face of the internet, along with the site. To avoid losing this, umm, literary treasure, I decided to restore a local copy I still kept around. Right now, I just have many of the original pages mirrored. I have also patched up all the navigation links and made some other fixes. I think there may be a few more pages beyond October 23, 2001. So if, by some strange twist of fate, you actually have them (and they are not at The Wayback Machine, I checked) I would like to archive them here.Andrew Hicks & James Wallace
All content copyright Andrew Hicks & James Wallace
September 21, 2005
Andrew sent me backup copies of the top 40 videos of 1996.
Check the 1996 index for links to those pages.
Further, he sent me never-before-published reviews that should have been
published on March 2, 2002. Also,
the reviews for July 28, 2000 have
been recovered.
August 29, 2005:
Andrew lives! Andrew is still on the internet and has even started
a new music video review blog at
http://videoreviews.blogspot.com/.
August 28, 2005:
August 4, 2005: Started adding select screenshots for certain videos. First new screenshots appear on October 16, 2001 entry.
Mirrored by Mike Melanson (mike -at- multimedia.cx)